kringle v1.0.1

kringle

A basic, dependency-free, Node.js web server with support for multiple hosts, security, and extensions.

NOTE: kringle is a work in progress. It currently has no support for https, but will in the coming weeks. To install, the simplest way is via npm:

npm install kringle

or

sudo npm install --global kringle

To daemonize kringle on a Unix-like OS, an init script will have to be created. This is also in the kringle todo queue. For now, you can manually start the server by simply running kringle from the command line. However, this is not particularly useful for two reasons: One, it will run in the foreground occupying your terminal window, and two, you'll have to start it up each time you want to run it--not very practical for a web server. Instead you can add the following line to your /etc/rc.local file to automate kringle at startup.

su kringleuser -c "/path/to/kringle &"

where kringleuser is the name of whichever user on your system you'd like to run kringle as. This user will have to be created beforehand manually; kringle will not do it for you.

& will send the process to the background and is very important, because without it, your computer will hang at startup until the process is complete, which it will not be, because it's a web server. Please note, however, that /etc/rc.local is considered an outdated way to daemonize a process and may not be supported by certain Linux distros. Check your documentation.